Comments on: Chris Zorich gets probation for failing to pay taxeshttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/12/chris-zorich-gets-probation-for-failing-to-pay-taxes/
ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.comSun, 02 Aug 2015 18:38:51 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: bobbyhoyinghttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/12/chris-zorich-gets-probation-for-failing-to-pay-taxes/#comment-2652248
Sat, 13 Jul 2013 08:54:23 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2196133#comment-2652248How soon we forget the Secretary of the Treasury forgot to pay taxes. The system is a joke. A national sales tax would give everyone the opportunity to pay. Maybe the shared pain would cause the population to vote with more due diligence.
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Sat, 13 Jul 2013 06:13:40 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2196133#comment-2652191If part of the agreement with the attorney general was not to take a leading role in any charity what this tells me is this guy was probably bilking the charity along.
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Sat, 13 Jul 2013 02:34:03 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2196133#comment-2651995When Illinois say’s your corrupt that really makes a statement.
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Sat, 13 Jul 2013 02:29:54 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2196133#comment-2651994I thought we no longer lock people up for debts.
]]>By: quicktakerhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/12/chris-zorich-gets-probation-for-failing-to-pay-taxes/#comment-2651991
Sat, 13 Jul 2013 02:28:51 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2196133#comment-2651991Do you want to make a difference? Tutor kids, feed crack baby orphans, coach sports, clean neighborhood parks. Stop patting yourself on the back for writing checks to sleazy sports charitable foundations.
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Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:48:16 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2196133#comment-2651950For me, this is just plain stealing from your fellow citizens. Pay your freaking taxes or stop using our stuff!
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Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:12:40 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2196133#comment-2651912I grew up in SW Wisconsin and we used to go watch the Bears practice in Platteville when I was a kid. Chris Zorich was one of the few that would sign an autograph for literally any and every kid that wanted one. He seemed like a genuinely good guy then, hopefully he still is and that’s why the investigation was called off.
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Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:11:18 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2196133#comment-2651909Same guy who used man hole covers in lieu of barbell plates growing up b/c he was so poor.
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Fri, 12 Jul 2013 23:17:09 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2196133#comment-2651756Sounds like they need a segment at the rookie symposium on paying your taxes. It must only be by a miracle that the rest of us amateurs figured out Life 101.
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Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:45:12 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2196133#comment-2651707I’d say this guy got off pretty lucky. The feds don’t seem to take kindly to millionaires who may claim ignorance that they have to pay taxes EVERY year – not just every now and then.

While it sounds like he may have legitimately trying to do good with his charitable foundation, there’s no shortage of folks who set up such foundations as a tax shelter and place personal expenses within the non-profit charity.

Although he doesn’t look like a rocket scientist in that photo (making “ignorance” that much more plausible) he must legitimately be a good guy if the feds let him off that easy.